National Archives (Amendment) Act 1981

This Act may be cited as the National Archives

(Amendment) Act, No. 30 of 1981.

. 9 “Section 6 of the National Archives Law, No. 48 of 1973

(hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended in subsection (5) of that section, by the substitution for the words “once at least in each period of three months ”, of the words “ once at least in every calendar year”.

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of section No. 48 of 1978. Amendment of section 9 of the principal enactment

Section 9 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (2) of that section by the substitu-tion, for paragraph (d) of that subsection, of the following new paragraph :—

“ (d) to transfer any record, being a record not less than twenty-five years from the date of its creation, as

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ig required by the Director to be transferred to the

National Archives for permanent preservation

;”.

The following new section is hereby inserted

.s immediately after section 9, and shall have effect as section 9a,bef.the principal enactment :—

section 9a the principal enactment.

“ Presidential: , 9a, Notwithstanding anything in any other

Archives provision of this Law—

and ence

it shall be the duty of the Secretary

it shall be the duty of the Director—

to deposit in the Presidential

all public’ records and a ee foyer 6 0° Ls

all such papers and docu-ments, news.

to establish a reference service utilizing the public recdrds, printed matter, documents and materials referted to in’ sub-paragraph (i) ; and

to submit to the President reports based on any such public records, printed matter, documents and materials as are referred to in, sub-para-graph (i), when required to do so by the President.

Section 12 of the principal enactment is hereby

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amended by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section, and the substitution therefor, of the following new subsection :—

enactment

“ (1) A private individual or the Chief Executive Officer of any institution in possession of any manuscript or document, over fifty years old, being a manuscript or document, of historical, cultural, literary, economic, or scientific value or which is otherwise of national impor-tance shall notify the Director of the existence of such document or manuscript, and in the event of a change of ownership or possession of such document or manuscript shall notify the Director, within a period of three months of such change of ownership or possession, the name and address of the new owner or possessor thereof. ”.

Act, No. 30. of 1981

Section 13 of the principal enactment. is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section, by. the substitu-tion for paragraph (a) of that subsection, of the following new paragraph :—

the responsible officer of any public office to transmit to the Director a copy of every annual report, state-ment of accounts or any other publication, whether printed or otherwise, and whether intended for sale or distributiori to the public or intended for cireula-

Section 14 of the principal enactment is hereby amend-ed as follows :—

“ (1) in subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution, for the words “littrary value.”, of the words

“literary or economic or scientific value or is other-wise of national importance.” ; and

in subsection (2) of that section, by the substitution, for the words “cultural or literary value”, of the words “cultural, literary, economic or scientific value or is otherwise of national importance ”.

Section 16 of the principal enactment is hereby amend-

6d as follows :—

iti subsection (1) of that section in paragraph (g)

by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following new subsec-tion :—

by the insertion immediately after subsection (2}

Notification of the date on which any regula.

Section 17 of the principal enactment is ‘pes amend-ed by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section, and the substitution thereof, of the following new subsection :—

“ (1) Any person who knowngly ‘défades;-YHarks on, mutilates, or causes damage to any record, manuscript or document deposited in the National Archives or removes without authority, any such record, manuscript. or-docu-

ment or who destroys any public record otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this Law or any regu-

“lation made thereunder or who contravenes any provision of this Law or any regulations made thereunder shall on conviction, be liable to rigorous imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to both such imprisonment and.

fine. ”

Section 21 of the principal enactment is hereby amend-ed by the substitution in subsections (1), (2) and.-{3). of that section, for the words “an Assistant-Dtrector”, wherever those words appear in those subsections of the words “any Deputy Director”.

Section 24 of the principal enactment is hereby amend-ed as follows :—

by the substitution for the definition of

by the insertion immediately after the d